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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
Death or Marriage.
From the HUTCHINSON (Kas } News.

From the HUTCHINSON (Kas.) News.
On Sunday evening lady dressed
in mourning and heavily yelled stepped
from the west-bound passenger train
and going to hotel registered as Miss
Celia Grogan, St. Louis. There was
nothing strange about her appearance,
nor did she act excitedly, but when
she procured little gun and started
out on quiet hunt the aspect of af-
fairs was changed. 1t did not take
her long to find the object of her
search in the person Of George Bickel.
When she found him O. rather stormy
interview occurred, during which Celia
fshed around for her weapon, at the
same time making George q little
either act in the capacity of bride
groom Or be the chief attendant at g.
funeral, and, may it be said to his
credit, he chose the lesser Of the two
evils, Immediately hunted up Probate
Judge Atwood, who made the pair
one, and they left this morning to
spend the honeymoon in Great Bend,
where they would oe out OF reach of
gossiping tongues. 1t seems, from all
information, that George, who was
| formerly from st. Louis, came to this
city about year ago, after promis-
ing to marry the fair Celia, but after
his arrival here his ardor somewhat
cooled, and, Notwithstanding num-
Der of missives he declined to make
good his promise; and the fair Anna
zon took matters into her own hands,
with the above results. Miss Grogan
| is g. brunette of little below the medi-
UNI height, petite figure, and is what
would be called handsome woman
She seems greatly elated over the sue
cess of her scheme, and even George
does not seem to be displeased.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
A Clergyman's Dilemma.
From the Cleveland Plain Deale,

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Sometimes q clergyman gets into g.
dilemma, and when he does it's an
amusing one-to the spectators. /
heard of one that is said TO have
happened not many days ago to the
pastor of small local congregation.
1t is said that as he took his seat in
the pulpit one fine Sunday morning
he discovered that he was collarless
and cravatless. He had left home
without them. He didn't dare to
stand before his flock with bare
neck, and he was seriously consider
ing how it would do to be suddenly
attacked with sickness, when he saw
one of his youthful adherents with
just the sort of straight collar and
somber tinted cravat that he pre-.
ferred. He called his friend, they re-
tired to the pastors sanctum, and
while the young man went home with
his muller high up around his neck
the pastor preached better than ever
and was more than usually well
equipped in neckwear.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
THE WORLDS VIEW.
By T. B ALDRICV.

At Haroun's court it CHANGED upon q time
An Arab poet made this pleasant rhyme:
"The new moon is a horseshoe, wrought of God.
Wherewith the Sultan's stallion shall be shoo. J"
On hearing this his highness smiled and gave
The man gold piece Sing again, o slave.
Above his Lutte the happy singer bent,
And turned another graceful compliment.
And, as before. the smiling Sultan gave
The man a shekel. Sing again. o slave.
Again the verses came, fluent as q rill
That wanders, silver footed down hill.
The Sultan, listening, nodded as before,
Still gave the gold and still demanded more.
The nimble fancy that had climbed so high,
Grew weary with its climbing by and by;
Strange discords rose, the sense went quite anlss
The singers rhymes refused to meet and kiss;
Invention tagged, the lutte had got unstrung,
And twice he sang the song already sung
The Sultan furious. called a mute and said
90 Musta, straightway whip me Oft his head!
Poets, not in Arabia alone,
You get beheaded when your skill is gone,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
The Latest Mormon Story.

Washington Cor. Cleveland Leader.
Apropos Of the remarkable story
from Nebraska about the resurrection
of Brigham Young, still more won.
derful narrative is told by agentleman
who has but just come from the Pa
citic Coast. 1t seems that the death
OF Brigham Young was a mysterious
one, to say the least. A large number
OF his followers were i'll doubt as to
whether or not he really did die. The
account which now comes from the
Pacific Coast is to the effect that just
before the reported death, the fortunes
of the Mormon Church began to wane
and it was thought among the leaders
that something must be done to get up
a revival. It was proposed to buy up
a large tract OF land in Mexico and
there remove the whole Mormon
population, where they would found
their kingdom anew. Young was to
die and suddenly come to life again,
awak ening the enthusiasm of bis fol-
lowers to its old-time intensity. 1t lis
now known, whether this &C.
count be true or not, that
the arrangements for the funeral
Of the old man were conducted
with the greatest privacy, and not un-
til the body was laid out could any,
one see it, and then instead of the real
prophet those who looked into the
casket, it is said, viewed only wax fig
ure. A Frenchman who was an expert
in wax work was brought over to make
life-like head and body of Young,
and so we'll was the job done that
even those who were familiar with his
every day appearance might be ex-
cused if deceived. The wax figure was
buried with the usual pomp and cir
cumstance which would be expected,
while the real Brigham Young went in.
to voluntary exile - hide until the
appointed time TOR lis resurrection,
when he should lead the faithful into
the land of Mexico. The investment
proved to be q bad one. The land
purchased turned out to be q lot OF
mountains which even mormon thrift
could not make habitable, and the
exodus was abandoned and the resur-
rection postponed until more favor
able chance should present itself.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
FARM AND HOME.

''Not Strangers There"
To whom would Heavens doors so freely open
AS to little child,
Who stands with timid f. ct upon its Threshold
Lovely and undefiled?
Her loved ones said. "Oh do not fear to enter
That land, SO wide and fair"
To all their words of cheer she could but answer
81 do not know them there"
as she spoke, her hands were lifted
In sudden, sweet surprise,
And the reflection of some dawning splendor
Illumed her wondering eyes.
No longer clinging to her tender watchers,
And darkened by their wee,
She looked as If she saw some loved one beck,
And was in haste to go.
What she beheld we saw not, and her rapture
Our hearts not yet might share,
But with a last, bright smile she whispered
gladly,
"They are not strangers there !''
Youths Companion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02

to scrape this together, he gets g.
few loads OF weak manure, from
which the rains have carried
nearly all the value. In order that
the yard may be more clean in sum-
mer, as well as to secure this scattered
manure, the winter and early spring
are the times to act. Whenever the
manure is thawed out, but before the
frost has left the ground beneath, and
the manure tramped into it, all hitter
and droppings should be lifted up and
put into piles, with that taken from
the barns. Or, if the better plan of
hauling manure out as fast as made
Is practiced, this may &C at once to
the field. A load of manure can be
collected IN this way abouj as rapidly
as If taken from stalls in the stable, and
is just as valuable. The greater com
tort Of man and animals will alone re-
pay the early cleaning.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02

the almost universal use of ice, es-
pecially when we remember that PEG
pie will cut ice from streams or ponds
that they would consider too impure
to furnish drinking water be-
cause they think that freezing
purifies the water. While pu-
rifcation of water by freezing does &C.
cur to q considerable ex tent, it is by no
means complete OR to be relied on.
Freezing does not destroy the vitality
OF some bacteria, nor does it specially
tend to free the water from dead or
ganic matter. That freezing will not
destroy the life of the bacillus of ty-
phoid fever is shown by DR.. Billings.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
Swine Plague InnocuIation.

DR.. Billings, veterinary surgeon of
Nebraska, has been making some care
full Investigations into the theory and
practice OF preventing hog cholera by
innoculation. He started In q total
diebeliever in Pasteur's theory, but
determined to make q faithful trial of
it. He has worked at it until he has
become an enthusiast on the subject.
believe ali that is claimed for it. But
he has seen enough to induce him to
make further and more thorough ex-
periments. We have read his reports
to the chancellor and regents OF the
Nebraska State University.
He says his experiments have dem.
onstrated "that hogs which have been
through the swine plague from natural
Injection will not have the disease the
second time" Therefore, prevention
by vaccination is possible. He claims
that the vaccine virus Of the disease
has to be cultivated until it is too
mild to kill the subject, and yet of
sufficient malignity to work immunity
from the disease. In some cases
where he vaccinated, by different quail
ties of vaccine. the hogs died, the It's
sues of the spleen were literally swa, M.
ing with the we'll known bacteria.
DR.. Billings is confident that he will
yet find some small animal so suscep.
tible to the virus that by passing it
through short series OF such animals,
it will attain a constancy of virulence
capable OF killing hogs in about five
days, and has no doubt that it can be
done as soon as we have means to ex-
pertinent properly This fact settled,
we shall then have simple and more
practical way of obtaining material
than by taking it from sick swine,
where he finds there is a great varia-
ton in the natural virulence of the
germs.
The great troublesswith DR.. Billings
is the difference in the malignity of the
virus in different hogs and in differ
emit localities. But soon they can,
by careful experiments, obtain a regu-
larry cultivated virus by passing
through many successive artificial gen.
erations, SO as to work q perfect I'M
munity in the system OF the hog, but
at the same time so mild as not to de-
stroy the system. And heis confident
this can and will be done. And he
asks for means and opportunity to
make grand test experiment, and he
asks that committee of the Board
of Agriculture be selected to watch the
experiment. We shall look to the re-
suit with deep interest.-IoWa Regis
ter.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
A COssaCk Burial.


Many q touching little burial service
but none more moving than one which
[ accidentally saw in Che beginning of
winter. We had been making a rapid
forward movement, and had captured
q pass in the Balkans. In the late
afternoon. after the engagement was
over, was making my way by a
shortcut across the hills to q point
where l expected to find the head
quarters, when | came upon singular
scene. Near the top of bare knoll,
strongly relieved against the sunset
sky, three riderless horses came out
10 sharp silhouette. A little to the
right of them, and on the very sum-
NIT of the knoll, two Cossacks
were STOPPING over, busy with some
thing, | could not see what. The
landscape, desOlate, sonlbre and
brown in the near foreground, deep
ened to intense purple in the middle
distance, and beyond and on either
side of the knoll, which was the
dominant object in the scene, the
Jagged mountain-tops sharply cut the
wintry sky. The glory of rich sun
set mystited the details OF the masses,
while it seemed to sharpen their con-
tours and heighten their contrasts.
1t was one of those evenings when
there steals into the mind q sense of
the soleiunity of the hour almost
amounting to religious fervor, and
when one contemplates the departure
of the daylight with an inexplicable
feeling of sadness, and q scarcely
formed but still vivid realization of
the fathomless mystery of the near
future.
AS approached the group the two
men rose to their feet, and, without
looking in my direction, uncovered
their heads and stood motionless.
Between them long, low mound dis
turbed the rounded outline of the hill,
and rude cross made of an unhewn
tree trunk added it's unexpected sill
houette to the shapes of the men,
seen as irregular masses against the
deep crimson of the western sky. /
involuntarily paused and waited, cap
in hand, until their silent prayer was
finished, and they had slowly turned
away and toward the three horses;
then, skirting the knoll GRO wned by the
mound and cross, kept on my way.
All that friendly hands could do to
honor the victim OF the days fight had
been religionusly done by his two
comrades. In the midst of the turmoil
of war he had been given q decent,
dignifed, Christian burial. And what
more impressive funeral could there
be than the one saw in the twilight
of the glorious Balkan sunset? The
place, the hour, the simple ceremony,
the symbol of Christian faith and
proof of comrades love; it was the
poetry of soldiers burial.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
Diseases Caused by Impure Ice.
From the Sanitary Engineer.


Questions as to the dangers to
health connected with the use Of ice
great interest, the more so since dis
ease produced by the use of contami-
mated ice could rarely be traced to it's
true cause, which in most cases would
probably not be even suspected. At
Cention was in fact not called to this
matter until in 1875, when an cpl
demic of diarrhea at Rye Beach, N. H.,
was clearly traced to ice cut from a
contaminated pond.
Since that time the same cause has
been suspected or proved in about
half dozen cases of occurrence of
typhoid fever or of diarrhea. Ger
tainly, this is = very small proper.
ton of bad results as compared with
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
Perfect Corn,

There have been serious complaints
of late years of want of perfection in
the earring of corn. Too many of the
largest and apparently best stalks
have no ears-are barren. There are
various reasons for this. The main
one is constant and continued crop
ping with the same seed. There is no
effort in the selection of seed, to OBJ
tain yearly the seed from the most
prolific stalks. Nor is there sufficient
efforts to infuse new blood, by obtain
ing seed from distance, grown on a
different quality of soil. In this
respect, it is not so necessary to have
another variety OF corn, as it is to
have seed raised on radically diff
ferent kind of soil. In doing
this care must be taken
that the seed is not carried too far
North or South. We are satisfied the
seed brought to Iowa from Missouri
and Kansas two years ago has been
serious injury to our corn crops,
and it is very probable the wide com
plants which have been made to us
lately of the great number of barren
stalks, were caused by the seed corn
which came from the South. There
were INSCRIPTIONS seedmen who pre-
tended to get their seed corn on the
same parallel of latitude in Nebraska,
who in fact obtained it in Southern
Missouri. We have had positive
assurance that this was the case in
some instances.
The reason that they do not raise
as good crops of corn in louisiana and
Texas as they do in illinois and Iowa
is not for want of rich soil or season
able rains, but from some cause
many of the large stalks--which are
twice as large and tall as they are in
Iowa-have no corn on them. And
this tendency increases as it progresses
south from the lowe, line. Hence we
fear that the seed which was brought
to Iowa two years ago, brought with
it this faint OF character of barren.
ness. Corn is our greatest staple, and
vet not one-tenth of the effort Is made
to improve the corn plant that should
be done. Greater care in selection,
and more efforts in changing location
of seed, from sandy to clay soil, and
vice versa. Ia this way infuse new
blood, and with it new vitality and
| fertility. Iowa Register.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
Notes.

THE farmer who stays at home and
carefully watches his stock and trains
the coming statesmen of this country
This boys) should be respected as his
country's benefactor.
IT is considered unwise by the best
breeders to breed young sows before
they are from ten to twelve months
old. Older males and females produce
more vigorous and healthy pigs.
The progressive enthusiast in farm
ing is always looked upon with suspi.
cion, and yet anything great is seldom
accomplished without enthusiasm.
PROF. LONG, of Engla d, says there
are in every nerd COWS that are mere
manure makers or pickpockets. They
have the same TODD the rest get, and
yet they will not give one half the milk
The cows are kept in the herd, yet the
trouble Is to pick them out They
are generally frauds in toe fact that
they are the best looking COWS of all
They give g. good mess of milk for a
short time, and then drop almost out.
1t pays to get rid OF all such COWS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
Manure in Open Yards.

The large collection of manure
around outdoor feed-racks is usually
hauled away, while that scattered
over the feed yard is allowed to re-
main. When moistened by the spring
rains, this is worked into q filthy,
pulpy mixture of earth and manure, by
the tramping of stock. Neither evap-
Grafton nor drainage can take place
rapidly from this surface mixture, and
the yard continues to be muddy long
after rains. Heavy rains wash out
and carry into the ditch great quaint
ties of the ammonia, and other valua-
BILE parts of the manure. In the fall,
when the half. way careful fal mer comes
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
TO THE MAN WITH MANY ACRES
BY JOAQUIN MILLER.

What If the sun should keep his goldI
The rich moon lock her silver up,
What If the gold clad buttercup
Became miser mean and
All me the collins are so true
In all accounts; the shrouds so thin
That down there you might sew and sew,
MOI ever sew one pocket in.
And all that you can hold of lands.
Down there, below the grass, down there
VIII only be that little share
You hold in your two dustful hands
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
Chinese Quail.
San Francisco Correspondence.

Five hundred of the small Chinese
quail from the Swallow district have
been imported here and distributed in
lots of 100 on theranches of gentlemen
interested in sporting. They are not
more than half the size of California
quail and are somewhat smaller than
New England quail. They are rapid
flyers and it takes O. good shot to
bring them down.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02
How Long to Milk Cows.

Some COWS settle this question FOR
their owners, and such, unless they are
fine large animals and calf raising is
the chief use Of the COW, should be fat.
ted and killed go four or five years
old. AS a general rule, it is q poor cow
that does not need to be dried off be-
fore calving. AS to how little milk paws
for the trouble of milking, that depends
upon the number Of COWS and the
amount required for family use or for
sale. If the milk is worth four or five
cents q quart it will pay to milk every
COW that will average two quarts g. day;
If less than that quantity is obtained,
| would advise to dry off thee The
practice of half feeding dry COWS is q
poor one. All COWS that are worth
keeping should be we'll kept; and any
animal with young should be as well
fed as when giving milk, though the
food need not be SO rich and oleagin-
Gus as when the milk is set for cream
or used for butter making. Ther&pid
taking on Of flesh at this period is az
Indication of sound health. Ifyou ex-
pect to have a fine calf, stop milking at
all events six weeks before the COW will
come in again. Some COWS will give
milk they rround if you allow them,
and it Is hard to dry them before they
make bag anew, but this should al
ways bedone. 1t will be found profit
able to feed COWS well and curry them
twice week thoroughly-D. ". Kern
in Practical Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02

CHANG JEN HOoN, the Chinese min.
lister at Washington, wears blue silk
over g. petticoat of white brocade,
and sports big diamond in button
on his black cap.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-02

A PLAN is being deliberately made by
the German postal authorities to have
all OF Germany connected by tele-
phone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-05
Lucky victory for Chicago.

In the second game. which began after an
interval of few minutes, Hsaly pitched for
indianapolis and Baldwin did the twirling for
Chicago. Healy was remarkably effective but
his support was wretched, and yet the score
shows that the indianapolis club did better work
than the visitors in every way, exceptin run-get-
hing. With only three clean hits and eight
errors, the Chicsgos defeated the unlucky home
Stub, which made eight clean hits and only five
errors. There was a great deal of bad playing
pn both sides. and the game was less interesting
than the first contest
The runs of the indianapolis team were scored
In the fourth and eighth innings In the fourth
Glssscock was got to first base error of
Tebeau. and after stealing second, scored on
a wild throw By Daily to second base. A phan-
tom hit by Shomberg, two-bagger by Denny
and single by McGeachy brought in two more
runs. The two runs in the eighth inning were
scored on singles by Shombere and Denny and
an error by Arson.
The Chicagos, in the first inning got two runs
q bad throw by Glasscock to Shomberg, a
passed ball. error by Shomberg and a hit by
Ryan. In the fourth a two Dagger by Burns, a
single by Pfefer and errors by Shombsrg and
Gardner let in four runs. Following is the
score:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-05
The Chicago Players Get Only One
Scratch Hit Off Of His Delivery.
Healy and Clarks0n Also Do Some Remarka-
bly, Fine Pitching -IndianapOlis Wins
One of Two Games with Chicago.
The League Championships RECORD.
A Great Contes. Between Pitchers.

The attendance at the two games between the
Chicago and indianapolis clubs yesterday after
noon was smaller than usual, while the playing.
especially in the first contest, was much better
than the average. 1t was pitching contest be-
tween Clarkson and Boyle, two of the Leagues
leading twirlers, and both of them distinguished
themselves, bat the record shows that the best
work was done by Boyle. Only one scratch hit
was made of of his delivery, the two others
credited in the score being phantoms- In tho
first inning Petit scored for Chicago on error
Of Shomberg aud a hit by Ryan that Glasscock
could easily have shut off if he had been looking
for it. After that Chicago failed to get a man
70 third base.
In the fourth inning the Indianapolis club
,cored two runs on Gardeners base balls,
wild pitch, and hits by Gasscock and Shomberg.
The batting both sides was too weak after
Bhat to be productive of runs, and the game
suited in victory for Indianapolis. The fol-
lowing is the score: